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of the bulletins have been rewritten for the new series. The new course 

 is known as the Cornell Reading-Course for the Farm Home and is pub- 

 lished monthly. The bulletins that have appeared thus far in the Reading- 

 Course for the Farm Home, beginning October, 191 1, are as follows:* 



1. The care and feeding of children. — Part I. Flora Rose 



3. The care and feeding of children. — Part II. Flora Rose 



5. Household decoration Helen Binkerd Young 



7. Household furnishing Helen Binkerd Young 



9. Reading in the farm home Martha Van Rensselaer 



and Caroline Webster 



1 1 . The laundry Flora Rose 



13. Cornell study clubs Martha Van Rensselaer 



and others 



15. Principles of jelly-making N. E. Goldthwaite 



17. The preservation of food in the home. — 



Part I Flora Rose 



19.- The preservation of food in the home. — 



Part II Flora Rose 



21. The preservation of food in the home. — 



Part III Flora Rose and others 



23. Methods of cleaning Mary Urie Watson 



25. Saving strength Emily M. Bishop and 



Martha Van Rens- 

 selaer 



27. Choice and care of utensils Ida S. Harrington 



29. Cost of food Flora Rose 



31. Household bacteriology Martha Van Rensselaer 



33. Vegetable-gardening Albert E. Wilkinson 



35. The flower garden Albert E. Wilkinson 



37. Home economics at the New York State 



College of Agriculture Martha Van Rensselaer 



The Home-makers' Conference. — Farmers' Week has become a regular 

 event at the New York State College of Agriculture. Many farmers and 

 their wives come to the College for a week in February of each year, in 

 order to attend a course of lectures on agriculture. An increasing number 

 of women and not a few men have become interested in the lectures on 

 household subjects presented during Farmers' Week. At first only occa- 

 sional lectures were offered on domestic subjects, but as the number of 

 women visitors increased a Home-makers' Conference was organized 

 similar to the conferences held in some western States. At the time of 



* The even numbers, whigh are omitted from the following list, are used by the Cornell Reading-Course 

 for the Farm, the series df lesion's "irrferrrre'd es"petfiaily for the men. 



